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Hanafin rejects call for special fuel payment 
Sinn Féin's call for the introduction of a special emergency payment for recipients of Fuel Allowance to help them cope with continuing fuel costs in the wake of January's freezing weather conditions has been rejected by Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin. Photo: Mary Hanafin Government inaction feeds emigration 
Responding to the latest live register figures which were published on Wednesday showing an increase of 13,000 people on the dole, Dublin Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the government has left many thousands of Irish people with no option other than to emigrate. Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, Councillor Seamus McGrattan, and Councillor Seán Crowe were part of a Dublin Sinn Féin-organised protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday protesting the government’s inaction on unemployment Sinn Féin attends Progressive London conference 
Encouraging signs that progressive left politics are alive and well in London and beyond were on show last Saturday, when over 700 activists and observers alike crowded into the annual 'Progressive London' conference. Photo: Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún addressing the annual ‘Progressive London’ conference last Saturday Buann An Droichead gradam náisiúnta Glór na nGael 
Is é An Droichead, Béal Feirste a bhuaigh céad áit i gcomórtas Ghlór na nGael 2009. Fógraíodh torthaí an chomórtais ar chlár Seán Bán Breathnach ar Raidio na Gaeltachta an tseachtain seo agus ba chúis cheiliúrtha é do Bhéal Feirste nuair a bhuaigh An Droichead €50,000 agus trófaí. 'Sí Roinn Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta príomh urra na duaise náisiúnta agus Foras na Gaeilge urra an trófaí. Photo: Nóra Welby, Bainisteoir Glór na nGael agus Pól Deeds (An Droichead) ag féachaint an bhfuil spás ar an bhalla do Duais 2009 Government failing to deal with organised crime 
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday evening, during a debate on serious and organised crime, Sinn Féin Justice Spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the current rise in organised crime shows that serial legislative change by the government has failed to deliver. Photo: Aengus Ó Snodaigh Coalition decimates anti-drugs funding 
Sinn Féin's Dublin West representative Paul Donnelly has severely criticised the government's further 11% cut in drugs task force funding. "I am dismayed at the lack of strategic thinking emanating from the present government," said Donnelly, who is also chairperson of his local Mountview/Blakestown Community Drugs Team. "It is well known that during times of unemployment, drug misuse increases. There are indications from young people and others of a huge explosion in the use if benzodiazepines and 'skunk'. Photo: Paul Donnelly 
Is nós é anois ar an teilifís go mbíonn 'sraitheanna' ag críochnú ag pointe ana-drámatúil (an cliffhanger) ar nós Lost, Sopranos agus araile agus 'seo cad chuige, mar sin, nach mbeadh sraith teilifíse Ghaeilge mar an cheanna. Thosaigh an tríú sraith de Seacht le craoladh arís ar BBC 2 Thuaisceart Éireann agus ar TG4 ó lár mí Eanáir, le haird an lucht féachána a fháil láithreach le filleadh Pádraig (Marcas) ón uaigh. Photo: SEACHT: Fiáin agus corraitheach Staff of banned Basque newspaper on trial 
The ongoing trial of five people who were involved in publishing the Basque-language newspaper Egunkaria, which was shut down by the Spanish government in 2003, is an outrageous attack on the basic civil rights of the Basque people, a campaign leader has told meetings in Ireland. 
Deir Siobhán Seoighe, Bainsiteoir Imeachta Rith 2010 go bhfuil 'momentum iontach le scéal Rith 2010 agus is léir go bhfuil an spéis ag daoine ann'. Bhí sí ag caint ag cruinniú i nGaillimh leis an choiste atá ag eagrú na himeachta i gCathair na dTreabh, an áit a mbeidh an rith ag críochnú i ndiaidh ocht lá agus oíche ar an bhóthar (agus ar mhuileann coise) ag taistil 1600 cileamadair ar fad. Photo: llie Cahill (Shamrock Rovers), Anthony Moyles (An Mhí), agus Luke Fitzgerald ó fhoireann Rugbaí na hÉireann, le Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh ag seoladh Rith 2010 
Philadelphia City Council in December approved a resolution calling for a united Ireland as outlined under the Good Friday Agreement. 90 meat plant jobs chopped, Dublin City councillors back work-to-rule against cuts and Focus on Youth Deaths of Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger 
Two icons of U.S. literature, born just four years apart, died last week. Howard Zinn, political activist and author of the groundbreaking A People's History of the United States, died aged 87. Cult novelist and author of Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, died aged 91. Photo: Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger |
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